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Shingle at low tide

Two adjacent Good Beer Guide (2025) available in South Street (the main thoroughfare)

Doors open on our visit and well worth exploring the austere, spartan Norman church

We needed to use the Intercom access, state our business and were buzzed through - being told "to stick to the paths". There are two gates, one on the west side and one on the east.

The patronage of this church—dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury—takes us back in time to the 12th century and geographically to southeastern England. Thomas Becket (born 1118) was Archbishop of Canterbury and, in the dispute between the Church and the Crown (King Henry II), a "martyr of canon law and ecclesiastical freedom," as Pope Alexander III put it on the occasion of his canonization (1173, just three years after Thomas's violent death). His feast day in the calendar of saints is December 29th. Canterbury Cathedral, where he was murdered in 1170 and which contains his tomb, can be visited virtually in the komoot system at the following link =>> https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/231266

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there is no possibility of a round trip now the bridge on the other side of the island is blocked

Saint NICHOLAS, Bishop of Myra, to whom the church in West Thorney is dedicated, is – alongside Saint Martin, Bishop of Tours in France – one of the most popular saints of all. His memorial day in the calendar of saints, December 6th, is probably known to almost every child. On the eve of this day, children used to put their shoes or boots – which had of course been carefully polished – outside the door so that Saint Nicholas could fill them with gifts during the night. In more agricultural areas, it was also customary for children to put out a small gift of food for the donkey, Saint Nicholas's mount (according to another tradition, it was a white horse).

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The views of Hayling Island and Emsworth from Thorney Island are simply stunning. You can soak in the peaceful scenery of Chichester Harbour with its calm waters and bobbing boats.